DRdragonsh·Jul 10, 2020Submission
An open source computational fluid dynamics (CFD) software
1 points · Open discussionOpenFOAM
OpenFOAM-dev
C++2017–2020
OpenFOAM / OpenFOAM-dev
OpenFOAM-dev
OpenFOAM Foundation development repository
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| 2017 | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2018 | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 2 | 0 |
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3 sourcesOpenFOAM – An open source computational fluid dynamics (CFD) software
3 points · Open discussion> These optimizations will only ever be made if Fortran has wide adoption.
I think you completely fail to realize that Fortran does have wide adoption, and that there is a big market for commercial and open-source Fortran compilers, and that these optimizations have already been made.
I also don't think you realize how much more productive a scientist is with a language that explicitly lacks all the bells and whistles of e.g. C++. Just like how many fiction authors prefer to use old and simple text editing software, hell even mechanical typewriters, while you would argue an iPad with keyboard cover has so much more functionality.
If you want some examples, go have a dig through the OpenFOAM C++ source code [1], and compare it to e.g. the Pencil Fortran code [2]. They're both CFD codes, though the specializations are different. The former
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can best be characterized as "templates all the way down", throwing you 800-line error messages when you miss a semicolon, while the latter is downright pleasant to install, use, understand and debug in comparison.
[1] https://github.com/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-dev
[2] https://github.com/pencil-code/pencil-code